Casino on old Navy airfield?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Casino foes claim toxic hazard 

Officials skeptical of risk posed by former navy airfield site 

By CLARK MASON 
SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMOCRAT (CA)
May 5, 2004

Opponents of a tribal casino on the outskirts of Rohnert Park are
raising the specter of toxic contamination to bolster their argument
that it shouldn't be built.

As the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria undergo a federal
environmental review of their casino site, opponents are pressing to
expand the inquiry to include potential contamination from an adjacent
former U.S. Navy airfield.

Before the casino was ever proposed, the World War-II era Navy facility
was on a long list of former defense sites slated for further
investigation by federal officials.

Casino opponents claim that leaking underground gasoline storage tanks
and cleaning solvents used by the Navy may have contaminated ground
water in the area. A study they commissioned also suggests there could
be problems from large amounts of lead left over from an old machine gun
target practice range within a few hundred feet of the casino site.

Officials express skepticism the old airfield caused such widespread
pollution problems. But the issue has drawn attention from Rep. Lynn
Woolsey, D-Petaluma, and renewed an investigation by the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, which is responsible for overseeing almost 10,000 former
military facilities across the country. 

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for the entire story, see
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/05airfield_b1_5.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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